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Witnesses testified about President Clinton’s Social security plan. Among the issues they discussed were using budget surpluses to strengthen the system, Medicare reform, and ensuring the in…

The House will debate H.R. 3196, the foreign operations appropriations bill, and H.R. 3075, a bill to amend the Social Security Act.

The House convened on July 22, 1999 to debate and discuss a Republican package of tax cuts totaling 792 billion dollars over ten years. This proposal was passed. Also, a fiscal year 2000 def…

The House Ways and Means Committee met to hear proposed amendments to the Financial freedom Act which provided for several forms of tax cuts. Despite the threat of a presidential veto, the c…

President Bill Clinton and others commended the Barksdale Air Force Base personnel for their service in the NATO military operation in Yugoslavia. The president commented on the Kosovar refu…

The House Ways and Means committee heard testimony from Witnesses about how to use the budget surplus prudently.

The House met for Legislative business.

The House met for legislative business.

Treasury officials testified about the president’s budget proposal. The plan included provisions to set aside the bulk of the surplus for Social Security and Medicare while using the remaini…

Mr. Greenspan testified that he agreed with President Clinton’s idea to save Social Security by using the budget surplus. He disagreed, however, with the idea to use some of the surplus to i…